My body was practically vibrating by the time I made it back to Sona's mansion. I couldn't tell if it was the nerves after being nearly killed by Freed or from the absolutely huge magic potential that both he and Raynare had given me. It was honestly baffling that neither of them noticed losing so much, then I remembered I had taken their current magic and all of their future potential.
It wasn't much now, even with the sheer amount I had. It was that my limits had expanded to the point that it exceeded theirs. I didn't only reach the current highest potential, either. Oh, no. Each one was added on top of my own and combined into a cohesive whole. That was... mind-blowing... and a little difficult to wrap my head around.
I had already removed my fake uniform and returned the stolen clothes to the clothesline, so I only had the bed sheet to change back and add to my bed. I entered the mansion and went up the stairs to my room and barely made a sound. The note was still there on my door, so I entered my room and froze. Sitting on my bed was Sona and she wore a frilly little nightgown that had me hard instantly.
“Did you enjoy your walk dressed like a ninja, Murphy-san?” Sona asked me with a glare.
I couldn't hide my disappointment that she hadn't used my first name in private like she was supposed to, which meant she was upset. I let her see the sadness on my face as I changed my outfit back into the bed sheet it used to be. Her eyes dropped to my waist and her eyes widened at me being naked and already hard.
“I took off my uniform to hang it in the closet and realized I had no normal clothes to change into.” I said and tossed the sheet onto the foot of the bed.
Sona lost the glare and sighed. “I'm sorry, I forgot to account for that when I was ordering things.”
“I forgot as well. I was enjoying spending time with you and taking care of your needs today and didn't worry about anything personal I might need.” I said and knelt on the floor in front of her. It didn't hide my nakedness from her and her eyes dropped down to see I was still hard.
“Murphy-san... Alex.” Sona said and her face went slightly red. “What did you do to yourself tonight? I felt your magic thrumming when you crossed the alert wards at the edge of the property.”
I took a deep breath and let it out. “I might have done something extremely dangerous and possibly beneficial to you and the people in your territory.”
Sona's eyes narrowed at me. “I need you to explain that.” She ordered. “Thoroughly, please.”
So, I did. I told her how my feet had led me partway across the city to a street that gave me a clear view of the abandoned church. I continued with what my idea was, to use a contract to swindle one of the fallen angels out of their magic potential, because I knew they were idiots and it would be easy. Getting to them was the difficult part.
Sona sat there in silence as I told her everything that happened, word for word, after I faked the light from a teleportation circle and approached the guard at the church. Her hand twitched a few times, as if to grab me or maybe slap me, then she learned about how Raynare acted and that there were three fallen angels at the church with twenty excommunicated priests, including Freed Sellzen.
She gasped at that name and slid off the bed and onto my lap to hug me. I couldn't tell if she was comforting me or herself, though. I kept talking and described my brief encounter with the crazy exorcist and she knew I could have died right then, so she hugged me tighter, which pressed my still hard erection between us.
I put my arms around her to hug her back and Sona listened as I explained about the two fallen angels saving me by their arrival and then I told her what they said about stopping Freed from killing any more devil summoners. I then had Freed sign the contract and handed him the fake letter before I ran for my life.
“And now here I am, naked on the floor, with a beautiful woman on my lap.” I said.
Sona glanced down between us and saw the damp tip of my erection had leaked a lot of fluid and left a large wet spot on her nightgown. “Is that why you're still hard after all this time?”
“Yes, it is. I was hard for you as soon as I saw you on my bed, as you saw.” I admitted and she blushed. “There's nothing to be embarrassed about, my King. You are beautiful in several senses of the word and I wouldn't be much of a man if I didn't appreciate that.”
Sona's blush faded slightly and she sighed. “Alex, I... I should tell you about...”
“You don't have to tell me anything you don't want to, even if it impacts my performance as your butler. I'll deal with whatever it is if it ever comes up.”
Sona looked into my eyes for several seconds before she spoke. “I was engaged once...”
“Just once?” I asked and she gave me a little glare. “My apologies. Please continue.”
“It was an arranged marriage between the Sitri Clan and...” Sona paused and gave me another glare. “On second thought, I shouldn't tell you my ex-fiance's name or his clan. It might give you... ideas.”
I had to hold in my laugh at that. “That's a good point. I won't ask around behind your back, either.”
Sona lost the glare and nodded. “He was a loutish brute that could barely hold a conversation with his peers, let alone keep up with my own efforts. Since I refused to be associated with him in any capacity, we wagered the engagement upon the Underworld's pastime. Chess.”
“Oh.” I said and then chuckled. “He was an idiot and accepted?”
Sona smiled and nodded. “He also handily lost, to his shame. Since I refused to burden myself with a husband that was nowhere near my own intelligence, the wedding was cancelled.”
“I suppose that also set a precedent.” I commented and she nodded. “Is that why you keep going to the Occult Research Club to play against Rias? Both because it's safe and for practice?”
Sona looked thoughtful for a moment and then nodded. “I hadn't thought of it in terms of safety before; but yes, playing against my childhood friend is both relaxing and frustrating.”
I understood what she meant right away. “There's no pressure and Rias never plays seriously.”
Sona smiled and one of her hands slid up my back and played with my hair a little. “That's it exactly. She knows if she wins that we won't be getting engaged, so she never really tries. I know she has some brains in her head...”
I barely held back my laugh and she saw how amused I was.
“She does, even if she barely shows them to anyone that's outside her immediate circle of friends.” Sona said and her other hand reached up and joined in as her fingertips lightly combed through my hair. It was quite soothing and I closed my eyes and enjoyed it.
“I guess she has no reason to show off for other people.” I whispered. “Or she's really lazy.”
Sona let out a little hum of agreement and I felt her weight shift slightly, then her lips lightly touched mine. I didn't do more than pucker my own lips a little to kiss her back, because I was pretty sure she liked that I was letting her do what she wanted. Her hands slid down to hug my neck and she broke the chaste kiss for a moment before I felt her tongue lick my lips.
I opened my mouth for her and she let out a soft moan and then she kissed me fully. I moved my tongue and my lips to match hers, except I didn't fight for dominance or tried to take control of the kiss. I let her set the pace and I only reciprocated if she changed things.
One of her hands let go of my neck and moved down between us. She rubbed her own breasts briefly to make her nipples pop out, then a delicate fingertip touched my tip and it twitched for her. She used just that finger to swirl the still leaking fluid around the tip and slicked it up. I let out my own soft moan as she slid her finger down my full length and back up.
Sona broke the kiss and leaned back slightly to get her whole hand wrapped around me. “Are you enjoying yourself, Alex?”
“Heavens, yes.” I whispered. I had almost said the g-word there and barely stopped myself. That would have killed the mood completely and I did not want her to stop.
Sona's weight shifted slightly again and her hand slid up and down my length and she rested her chin on my shoulder to whisper in my ear. “If I gave you the chance to leave, would you?”
Despite my overcharged libido and how increasingly hot and wet Sona was as she pressed herself against me, I wasn't so far gone that I wasn't thinking straight. I took a moment to consider her question before I answered.
“If you mean this room and your tender embrace, I emphatically refuse.” I said and she let out a little laugh. “If you mean your peerage, the only way I could ever leave it, is to be traded away. If I have to make the choice for myself, then I will always choose to stay with you forever.”
Sona gave me a tender kiss, so I knew I had said the right thing.
“I was discarded once already and you accepted me with open arms, even though you were reluctant to do so. You did it anyway, because you care about helping your friends when they need you.” I said and felt her nod. “It wasn't your fault that Rias traded me to you before completing the deal we struck.”
Sona gasped and her weight disappeared from my lap. “I forgot to tell her about that!”
I opened my eyes in time to see Sona cast a teleportation circle and she disappeared in a flash of light. I sat there on the floor with my dick feeling quite cold after Sona's warmth had been removed so cruelly. I was about to stand up to go to the bathroom to have a shower when I gasped and felt a surge of magic power flow into me.
Unlike the things I had felt before, which were mostly traces of magic and lots of potential, this was a straight up shot of pure devil magic that was shunted right into my being. My body glowed red for several seconds and I felt whatever that was, stacked up on top of my current magic. I also felt something inside of me start to shift and the magic inside me surged again.
I convulsed and collapsed onto the floor as the energy swirled through my body and I started blacking out. I only had a few seconds to mentally add the remaining changes I wanted to do to my body as the devil conversion process, that should have taken until morning to finish, or about another eight hours, had just jumped ahead in progress and it was happening right goddamn now!
My last thought was pain from accidentally cursing God in my mind and I lost consciousness.
*
Sona Sitri was usually a highly strict and serious person and unforgiving towards her peerage members for getting into trouble. Whether it was a matter of the Student Council or the Sitri Clan, she did not take anything lightly. She was also dedicated to her dream of opening a Rating Game School for all Devils, regardless of their status, and had even gone to the human world to learn how to run a school.
She also sometimes displayed a shockingly short-sighted and weak-willed side to herself, which she was currently suffering from as she watched her childhood friend heavily pay for breaching a contract. It would usually only cost a small amount of magic and some mocking by her peers, because it was usually not a huge thing if you failed one occasionally. It was just something you accepted and moved on.
Unfortunately, the deal Rias failed to complete involved one of her own magically connected Evil Pieces. The deal as stated was for Rias to reincarnate Alex and save his life in exchange for his promise to give her 'anything'. By only doing half of the deal and trading him away before healing him to save his life, she was in severe breach of the primary wording of the verbal contract.
Even if Rias had taken him in and healed him, she still hadn't received or acknowledged the payment. That had been given to Sona and her Queen, Tsubaki. Then Alex had claimed the contract was broken and said he wasn't worried about it, because Sona had completed it for Rias. He didn't realize that was not how contracts worked unless the original granter arranged it to be so.
Instead of the small amount of magic that was usually the penalty, Rias was having a much larger portion of her magic stripped as compensation. At least, that's what Sona thought was happening, because the remaining Evil Pieces that Rias owned had appeared and were floating in front of her, as if mocking her.
The mutated Pawn piece that Rias had been so proud of, was slowly changing from red to a normal piece's color of white. When the conversion finished, whatever was going on ended and the pieces dropped to the carpet and Rias collapsed on the couch.
“Rias!” Akeno gasped and knelt beside her and checked her pulse and her forehead to feel for a fever or something. “What just happened, Sona?”
“I don't know.” Sona said and chanced casting the magic value spell on Rias, only to see she had lost almost half of a full rank of her devil magic. She was still barely a High Class Devil and had almost dropped down to Mid-Class.
Sona had never seen anything like that happen before and she was hesitant to try and contact the only expert she knew about the Evil Pieces, because there was no way she could contact one of the Satans without alerting her sister as well.
“I've never seen the Evil Pieces react like that.” Sona told them.
“It was... pun... punishment.” Rias whispered as her eyelids fluttered open. “I felt... the piece shift... and switch with another.”
“Alex.” Sona said and barely held in her gasp. “I have to go and check on him.” She said and started to cast a teleportation circle.
“Wait.” Rias said and Sona stopped casting and held the magic back. “I want... to trade back.”
Sona knew it was much too late for that to make any difference. Plus, she had already asked him if he would ever want to leave, and he had wholeheartedly chosen to always stay with her. She shook her head and finished casting the spell and disappeared in a flash of light.
She reappeared in the teleportation room and walked at a fast pace out of the room and up the stairs to Alex's room. She opened the door and saw her Pawn convulsing on the floor. Her gasp escaped and she rushed over to him and knelt as she checked his pulse and his forehead. His pulse was skyrocketing and he was burning up.
Sona didn't know what to do about it and mentally sighed. She couldn't put it off any longer and chose to make the call. With resignation, she started to stand and stopped, because her eyes had locked onto his erection that was still there.
I did that. Sona thought, a little proudly. She stood up and grabbed the sheet on the bed to lay it across his waist and covered his legs. Her thoughts about moving him were ignored, in case that physically hurt him or caused him any unseen damage.
Sona left the room and went back to her own to grab her DevilPhone. A deep breath and a calming thought later, she chose her sister's number and called. It picked up after five rings.
“This is Magical Girl Levi-Tan's private line! I'm busy right now, so please leave your name and number after the sound of the shooting star and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!” Serafall Leviathan's overly happy voice said.
Even though I love her deeply, she can be so embarrassing that it hurts. Sona thought with a red face. She also knew she needed to pander to her sister a little, because this was an emergency. “Sera-chan, I need your help.”
A click sounded as the phone was picked up.
“I'll be there as soon as I hang up, Sona-chan!” Serafall's actual voice said over the phone.
“Thank you.” Sona said, her voice full of gratitude. “Could you bring uncle Ajuka as well? There's been a weird interaction with the Evil Piece system and my new Pawn.”
“Of course! I'll contact him right away and we'll both be there as soon as we can.” Serafall said.
“Thank you again.” Sona said with relief.
“There's no need to thank me, Sona-chan! I'll always drop everything and come to you when you call! Always!” Serafall promised for the hundredth time.
Unlike all the other times, Sona was comforted after hearing it.
*
Yuuto Kiba was up late doing his exercises and heard the front door of his apartment being shot and then kicked in. He formed a basic sword and braced for a fight, because whoever it was, would be coming right to him with his bedroom door open.
“HA hahaha! You're really here!” The crazy person said and brandished a light gun and a sword that made Yuuto's eyes hurt to look at. “I'm going to have so much fun gutting you and dancing in your entrails!”
Yuuto didn't hear a word the man said, because his entire focus was on the holy sword the man held. Anger and righteous fury filled him and he ignored everything else as he dropped the basic sword and formed a black sword of light absorption.
He felt several impacts on his arms and chest and ignored them, because they were inconsequential to his true goal. He held up the black sword to block and absorb some of the holy light that was hurting him, then he attacked with a vengeance so strong that it would have terrified the other members of Rias' peerage if they ever saw it.